Hector malot ensam i världen
He studied law in Rouen and Paris , but eventually literature became his passion. His first book, published in , was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille Nobody's Boy , , which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the street musician Vitalis at age 8. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
They married September 30, , each for the second time. From the union was born first a child named Victor who died at a young age. A few hours after his birth, a sailboat moored in front of the house suddenly veers dangerously towards it.
Sans Famille
When a crowd gathers they find the little Hector sleeping peacefully as if nothing happened, which is seen as an omen of an unusual destiny. Hector spends the first years of his childhood in La Bouille.
He observes the ships loading or unloading their cargoes, those leaving for distant destinations; he observes the passage of the ferry, the comings and goings of the stagecoaches, the customers of the inns, etc. He becomes a justice of the peace for the canton of Bourgtheroulde.
Singur Pe Lume
He stays locked up for hours devouring books, preferring to abandon his French lessons to read Racine , Lesage or even Molière. He developed a taste for nature and botany which would last his entire life. Hector departs in October Hector arrives in Rouen at the Heudron and Lamardeley institute, attended mainly by the sons of well-off peasants and notables of the region.
Here he befriends future literary critic Jules Levallois. Three years later, in , Hector attends the Corneille high school in Rouen but hardly excels in his studies, suffering from a school system in which he feels he cannot express himself. He prefers history class, with a teacher he considers an original, free-spirited person. Hector Malot arrived in Paris in [ 11 ] when he was 17 years old.
Sans Famille (Literature) - TV Tropes
However, in , against the wishes of his father, he decided to abandon the legal path in order to devote himself to a literary career. In the years that followed, Hector tried in vain to have a first play performed. To ensure his livelihood, he wrote a few articles, notably in Journal pour tous , where Jules Simon hired him for his knowledge of botany. Busy on one hand with his work as a journalist and distracted on the other by Parisian life, Hector Malot found himself unable to advance the writing of his first novel.
Alleen op de Wereld by Hector Malot
This loss upset the writer greatly. He later attempted to exorcise this episode through the writing of Romain Kalbris , a novel in which a dying mother awaits the return of her sailor son. In Hector builds at 3 avenue de la Dame-Blanche in Fontenay-souls-Boris, a wooden chalet that he would live in until the end of his life. This to ensure he could regularly go to Paris or neighboring stations for the walks he enjoyed.
His father, Jean-Baptiste, then a widower for almost two years, moved in and remained there until his death in October Shortly after, in , Hector married Anna Dariès in Montgeron , with whom he has a daughter, Lucie in This novel tells the adventures of the foundling, Rémi, who is sold by his adoptive father to a street musician named Vitalis. Traveling the French and later English roads, Rémi works in different professions and meets many people before setting out to find his biological family.
Hector Malot thought of and wrote this work for his daughter, Lucie. He begins the novel with a dedication to her. He proves to be an attentive and loving grandfather, curious to note the development he observes of the child.